hey this is pat flynn from the smart
passive income blog thanks for joining
me today I'm gonna go over really quick
how to create an e-book cover two really
simple methods using Photoshop you can
this first method but the first method
it's totally free you can do it on your
own just follow the instructions the
second method requires a payment to
ActionScript that you can use to create
ebook covers it makes it really easy
almost automatic and it looks a whole
lot better but it does cost a lot more
and I'll show you that in a second so
the first method like I said it's
totally free the first thing you want to
do is create a cover that is the same
size as your ebook so whatever size your
ebook is you want to create a cover
that's the same size I already did this
free really quick here this is my sample
ebook cover by Pat and it's an eight and
a half by 11 size because my you know
theoretical hypothetical ebook is a nap
by 11
I usually like to divide them into three
sections and put the you know top middle
bottom and then put the title in the
middle and then my name on the bottom or
the top somewhere and just add some
little decorative elements you can do
whatever you want for your cover but the
trick is to put this cover onto a 3d
looking box or book so that it you know
we have a 3d image of it so we can use
it on our sales page option forms our
websites blogs whatever so in order to
get that free blank template you want to
go to and this is just one place you can
go to but I mean it has exactly what you
need you can go to ebook template source
com
that's ebook template source calm and at
the top click on ebook covers and then
you can download these free kind of
templates that you can place whatever
ebook cover that you make on and there's
different sizes here I just downloaded
this first one here because it looks
like an eight and a half by 11 and let
me pull that up for you right here now
there it is in Photoshop now so I have
them side by side so what I want to do
is take this ebook cover and drag it on
top of this 3d book now we don't need
this one anymore
now you'll see that the 3d cover you
know the template is on top so we want
to make sure that the one we just
dropped in is on top I'm gonna reduce
the opacity to maybe 50% so I can you
know so it's transparent so I could see
what I'm doing and I like to scale it so
that I get the top left
we match the the top-left corner matched
up and a little bit around the same size
so I'm gonna go to edit transform you
know I make sure the layer that we just
dropped in is highlighted layers
transform and scale and I'm going to
scale it down if you hold shift and drag
a corner it'll stay at the same
constraints but we are the same
proportions so I'm just gonna drag it so
the top right corners or the top left
corner of this matches I'm gonna zoom in
just so I can see that so there you go
and press Enter
and then now I'm gonna transform it
again but this time I'm gonna distort it
and this this is where the magic happens
I'm gonna click distort edit transform
distort and now I can drag each corner
to their respective corner of the e-book
cover like that zoom out and it kind of
just skews everything nicely for you
let's see right there and then this one
goes right down there and bam let me
zoom in just so I can get a closer look
and there you go now you make sure one
press it returned and then put the
opacity all the way back up so it's like
it was before and there you go instant
ebook cover in a 3d image you know in
perspective and it looks it looks pretty
good now the second way is a totally
ninja way and it's it's a little bit
more expensive you have to go to cover
action procom to get this software cover
action Pro and you'll see just an
example of all the crazy-looking things
that you can design with this this is
just amazing software I'm show you
exactly how it works right now the way
it works is it's it's you download these
action scripts after you purchase from
cover actual Pro you download these
action scripts and you put them in a
certain directory in Photoshop and they
they show up in this actions tab here
and then what you can do is you select
the book that you want you know I'm
gonna do a CH book v you'll see what
that looks like in a second you
I like create and press play down here
and then it gives me a little flat
looking template now what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna drop in our cover once
again and then go down to render and
click play and then that's when
everything happens for you so I'm gonna
go back to my ebook here ebook cover I'm
gonna select everything again drag on
top of this you'll see that's a lot
smaller these templates from from the
ActionScript from cover option Pro are
quite large so you're gonna have to
scale things so we can scale things in
the same way transform scale and I'm
gonna scale it big make sure it all
lines up correctly and the size might be
a little off but that's when you can
make adjustments so you'll see here let
me let me bring this down really really
quick just because I want to show you
the middle part here says cover and then
the left side says spine so the spine is
the the side of the book so you want to
make sure that you can you'll have
everything in place and you can see my
spine isn't totally covered so I'm gonna
go to this layer and transform it again
and scale it so it's it's going so that
all the edges are filled and you can see
when I make this layer transparent that
you can see what's gonna be on the cover
and what's gonna be on spine so I'm
gonna keep that there go to my text
layers center it just so I know that
it's centered on the cover part and then
I'm gonna bring back the opacity so it's
full level and like I said before I'm
gonna go over here to step two which is
render click play and then I'm not doing
anything right now I'm hands-free it's
all doing the stuff for me I'm not even
I'm not touching anything and it's gonna
go through and create all the layers and
it's kind of like someone is doing it
for you
and it just takes a moment so we'll see
what comes up it should be BAM right
there instant and you even get like nice
little reflections and you can see how
the spined it looks like it's kind of
rounded a little bit and the back of the
book comes through it's pretty amazing
software
and then you can use this to create you
know your opt-in form sales pages or
whatever and get more sales and more
leads or whatever you're looking for so
if you visit WWF income com you'll see
an opt-in form for my ebook on how to
make ebooks if you're watching this
through YouTube I go over there and
check out what my cover looks like and
sign up for the form and get your own
copy of e-books a smart way so that you
can make a books just like me and make
money online and and be successful so
thank you so much for watching this
tutorial again we did that free method
with ebook template source calm and then
we just dragged and drop it onto that
free template or we use cover after
procom to create these fancy looking
ones so thanks again I hope to talk to
you soon and I'll see you in the next
video again smartpassiveincome.com or
drop by my facebook page facebook.com
slash smart passive income thanks take
care
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